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Cedille Records is committed to supporting Chicago’s finest classical musicians.

Cedille is a not-for-profit record label dedicated to classical music and the artists who create it. We enhance the world’s catalog with lush, award-winning recordings featuring Chicago’s top performers and composers.


Rachel Barton Pine

Corelli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5

Ian Koziara

Silenced – Unsung Voices of the 20th Century

We work with classical music’s most accomplished and intriguing performers and composers

Music drives all of Cedille’s recording projects. Listen to our artists and explore their backgrounds and discographies.


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From orchestras to composers to individual soloists and vocal ensembles, visit our extensive classical music catalog.


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Children’s Stories features world premieres of works based on beloved children’s literature by superstar classical composers Michael Abels (Frederick’s Fables for narrator and orchestra) and Augusta Read Thomas (Gwendolyn Brooks Settings for children’s choir and orchestra). Both pieces bring children’s literary narratives stunningly to life through music.

 

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For her 24th recording for Cedille Records, violinist Rachel Barton Pine joins forces with period instrument specialists David SchraderJohn Mark Rozendaal, and Brandon Acker to record Arcangelo Corelli’s seminal set of 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5.

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Silenced – Unsung Voices of the 20th Century, featuring tenor Ian Koziara and pianist Bradley Moore, shines a light on art songs by Franz Schreker, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Viktor Ullmann, and Alexander von Zemlinsky, whose musical achievements were overshadowed by the oppression of the Third Reich. This album marks the first tenor-voice recording for almost all of these rare songs.

Latest Podcast

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden about her experience recording Cedille’s latest release, Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet.


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Behind the Scenes

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Monthly Playlist

Created for the month of Halloween, a playlist of over 50 tracks from the Cedille catalog that are spooky, scary, eerie, demonic, sardonic, grotesque, and/or just plain weird — plus one piece that actually is Halloween-themed: Chicago composer Leo Sowerby‘s “Theme in Yellow” (yellow = pumpkins).